Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Optonics Co. Ltd. manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, indicating the current prosecution phase. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which means the legal strategy is dependent on the review of a particular person. For the applicant, this necessitates an understanding of that specific examiner's prior rulings and preferences for Optonics Co. Ltd.
The administrative footprint for Optonics Co. Ltd. is limited to the distinct art unit. LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P is the busiest examiner for the company, with the busiest examiner pending office action. Because this action constitutes the company's pending workload, the examiner's approach to Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims will dictate the immediate future of the portfolio. The data suggests that the patent efforts are concentrated in the technical niche handled by the unit at the USPTO for Optonics Co. Ltd.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.9% | +40.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17911236 | HYBRID WALKING ANALYSIS APPARATUS FOR FALL PREVENTION AND FALL PREVENTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17911236 | HYBRID WALKING ANALYSIS APPARATUS FOR FALL PREVENTION AND FALL PREVENTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17911236 | HYBRID WALKING ANALYSIS APPARATUS FOR FALL PREVENTION AND FALL PREVENTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOptonics Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Severo Anton P Lopez has the most, with 1 of Optonics Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
